a. If it walks and growls like a wolf, and preys upon the weak, it might be a wolf. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Then Jesus said to them, You will all fall away because of me this night. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Just as we are not to purposely provoke animosity and ridicule, we are not to stay in the midst of persecution if it is possible to leave. e. Hate-crimes will be applied to preachers who condemn the sin of homosexuality. The proclamation went on to mix wokism with greeting-card Christianity. Tracks. Meet this antagonism by not dropping your standard one inch. There are people from every race, every class, every nationality that hate God and anyone that reflect Him. a. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. Little by little it began to surface that he misrepresented Scripture. Dictatorial States find Christians to have an allegiance to someone other than themselves, and so they hate Christ. Neither should we. We must consider the fact that wolves are among us in sheep's clothing. I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men. i. 1. We shouldnt expect anything less. Even in trying to be helpful to someone who may need it, we barge in without being asked and then often major on the minors. Its like what Winston Churchill said to Great Britain after a heavy setback for the Allies, All I can offer you is blood, sweat, and tears Winston Churchill. It is the typical example of what the world thinks of, and does to, goodness. After all, they have already been defeated by the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. This is what makes me know that the Prophetic word of God in the Bible is true. Silence is complicity, therefore also bad. ix. Paul said it in 2 Timothy 3:12. We now live in a day and age when we need to think seriously about what it means to be a Christian in the 21st Century. Leave a few tasks for the Armageddon crew. . John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. The reason is simply because they are part of liberal churches that long ago compromised Biblical integrity for man- centered philosophy. . 10. The Scripture is clear that those who live godly lives will be persecuted. We are weak, but you are strong. You do not want to rock the boat, so compromises are made so that things can continue for a while longer. Often times a writer will prophecy two events at the same time. And you shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. I found a sobering quote by John MacArthur made ten years ago, When its citizens turn away from the Lord and His standard, even the freest and most democratic governments, including our own United States, will eventually inhibit the free expression and practice of the Christian faith in hostility to Christ and His Word. I believe we are beginning to see how fast that can become a reality. He became a household name. 2. Act 20:29-30 (WEB) 29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. And for us, as Americans. The loss of a job. 2:1, Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it., ii. Someone has said that there are only two things stronger than natural love; one is born of hell and the other is born of heaven. What we believe to be precious it regards as of no account. And they took as their wives any they chose. ii. 3. We enjoy a great measure of freedom, but are we prepared to not bend the knee to the State, if the State ever asks us to go against our conscience and the Word of God? The patient sunshine beats upon the mist-cloud and breaks up its edges and scatters it at the last. Such statements about persecution might have freaked the disciples out. And so note, secondly, how this hostility is masked and modified. Many missionaries need to practice this to literally stay alive. In these dangerous, decadent times, love some kind of amorphous, uncritical love will presumably tame the wild beasts. I suppose you would like to pray for safety too, and Mother would like that, Im sure. Is America heading south down a moral sewage pipe? 2. Habakkuk 1:8 Verse Concepts "Their horses are swifter than leopards View . Reckon it as a sign and test of true union with Jesus Christ. He could speak to Jews, Greeks, weak, strong, slave, or free. I am the bread of life. d. Tax-exempt statuss for churches and charitable giving will be denied. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering. Then you may rise up early and go on your way. They said, No; we will spend the night in the town square. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. a. But lets not play the victim, my brothers and sisters! Sheep avoid wolves but in three ways these sheep are different: They are being sent to the wolves They are to be shrewd as snakes They are to be innocent as doves. Religious persecution arises because of the competition. iii. How can we know the way? And he said to him, Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.. Christian men and women! But since it is the Good Shepherd that is with us in the midst of the wolves, then the outcome is sure. He isnt implying all people, literarily, even Christians. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. xi. And it is for us to see to it that what provokes, if it does provoke, hostile judgments and uncharitable criticisms, insulting speeches and sarcasms, and the sense of our belonging to another regiment and having other objects, is our cleaving to Jesus Christ, and not the imperfections and the sins with which we so often spoil that cleaving. Its anti-Christ. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. Later, when he became the Apostle Paul, he was at the receiving end of the scourge. Sadly, there are many "wolves" among the "flock of God," leading the unwary and ignorant believer into false teachings and bondage to deception. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years? Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? What could this statement possibly mean? Maybe we will see more of this as time goes. 15:1-2, Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to youunless you believed in vain., 2. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. H All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turnedevery oneto his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. Dear brethren, to which army do you belong? They discussed the Bible, and Templeton now rejected it. Ex. We know that in the end times there will be a global religious system. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. But that unity of life between Christians and Christ has another consequence than the spread of love. Their only defense is running away, which they do not do well, and in a panic, a pregnant ewe cannot only lose the lamb, but die herself from exhaustion. The King is coming back, but in the meantime, things will not go well for followers of Jesus. There is no need whatever that there should be any antagonism at all between a godless world and hosts of professing Christians. 6. But, heres whats missing in the CBC statement: the wolves. Global Bible Studies SHEEP AMONG WOLVES. That is a current political problem. On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, Peace be with you. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. If we may trust tradition, every one of that little company, Speaker as well as hearers, died a martyr's death, with the exception of John himself, who was preserved from it by a miracle. The Cross And The Flesh (Gal. Sheep among Wolves Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. Persecution will arise against those who follow Christ. Simply this. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? The failure of shepherds to acknowledge wolves not only leaves the flock unprotected, it attracts other wolves. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 4. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. The general principle is found in verse 16: Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves. The world will hate Christians because the world hates Christ. We call it the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. III. b. Never do we find him trying to stir things up. They enjoy the things that their money can buy. You cannot serve God and money. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. f. Luther rested in the promise that, God created the sparrows; this is why not one of them will fall to the ground without His will. Verse 23 gives the defense against persecution and the hope. Theology has joined cancel culture. The dust in the air! Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? We will be seen as haters. They rape and murder. They are bearing the natural results of their own failings and faults. d. This message has one point: Expect persecution and dont live in fear. Some feel this statement the Son of Man comes is the same as saying The kingdom of God has come.. His ethical sense was unique. He was often thrust into the frontlines of battle, ministering in the places of danger to his life. The Apostles and we (in other passages) are described as sheep. I . ii. It will not be constant, it was not so even for the Apostles, but it will come. Jesus is the Good Shepherd (Jn 10:11), and the Chief Shepherd (1 Pt 5:4). . However it may be covered over, there is a gulf, as in some of those American canons: the towering cliffs may be very near -- only a yard or two seems to separate them; but they go down for thousands and thousands of feet, and never are any nearer each other, and between them at the bottom a black, sullen river flows. Jesus forecasts the global holocaust that is coming upon His Church and His disciples. 45:7) As someone said, "a wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf!" And again, 'If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.' The world will hate us because the world hates Christ ( John 15:18-21 ). That can add up to a lot of pressure, but the true mark of Christianity is conformity to Christ and not the world. He starts with Jesus, and tells the stories of persecution of the apostles from the Roman Empire, then on to the other emperors. There is a similar promise to us. Amongst those who will not in any way sympathize with your efforts. We were the source of the greatest world missionary endeavor of anytime in history. But by 1948 Templetons life and worldview were beginning to go in a different direction than Grahams. Let it be as you have said. But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons. 2. As we saw last week, many of these instructions are specific to the apostles at a specific time, but they also contain principles of ministry that carry on through the ages. III. Not a bit of it! What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? Eph. As Christians, we want to grow in the Lord and learn more about Him. God has fixed the time for my death. I just ordered a book called What every Christian needs to know about the Quran.. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. i. 3. vi. This is a characteristic that is to be developed by every Christian. They enjoy being able to have a life of ease. They made a film which my wife and I just watched a few months ago, a black and white, made in 1963. i. -- it is the question of questions for us all; and I pray that you and I, won from our hatred by His love, and wooed out of our death by His life, and made partakers of His life by His death, may yield our hearts to Him, and so pass from out of the hostility and mistrust of a godless world into the friendships and peace of the sheltering Vine. It is not brave or wise or spiritual or loving to needlessly incite anger or trouble. . 'If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you.' Wolves among the Sheep. Matthew 10:16-17 AMP Back in 1985, a celebration took place at a municipal pool in New Orleans. The cry of the baby. The petition uses the word we repeatedly. Which shows the hypocrisy of the decision. iii. Will not portray Christians in a positive light. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives us a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings. v. The gospel which was suppressed and ignored and covered by some, will be revealed and exposed. In Lord of the Flies, British schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. Sheep are probably the most dependent and helpless of all domesticated animals. How often is it even mentioned from the pulpits across our nation? That thought alone should really encourage us. Well, first off, Paul tells us to pray for freedom and peace. The first one was the Sermon on the Mount. until the Son of Man comes., 1. Brothers and fathers and mothers will do this. What about today? Peter said it in 2 Peter 4. When Phil Johnson was here last month we asked him who his favorite theologian was and he said it was R.L. So there is a film of roofing thrown over the gulf. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. As bigots. b. 1. Nowadays, it seems the shepherds have chosen not to acknowledge the existence of wolves. iii. Join us for this week's episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Shaughnessy interviews Pastor Patrick Hines about a sermon he recently preached titled John Pipers False Gospel. 1. vi. White Supremacy bad. The bleating sheep finds no harmony in the howl of the wolf. but . 2. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 'When they do agree, their agreement is wonderful.' not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your father.. In Acts 20:29, Paul warned the Ephesians elders against savage wolves that would arise from among them and not spare the flock, but speak perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves. In the process he was beaten, scourged, and even stoned and left for dead. In this passage Jesus warns the Apostles of this fact. vi. i. E This at first would seem a ridiculous statement and unloving and unkind if true. f. Stonewall Jackson is legendary for his fearlessness. In fact his name nearly synonymous with courage and bravery. The world has a very keen eye for the inconsistencies and the faults of professing Christians, and it is a good thing that it has. The first prayer I want my son to say for me is not, God, keep Daddy safe, but God make Daddy brave. Some would also have bits of metal or rocks tied to the end of the leather thongs. v. In his 1996 memoir,Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith, Templeton recounted a conversation with Graham in Montreat prior to entering seminary: 1. Paul said it in 2 Timothy 3:12. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. If being a Christian means to be a little Christ, which is its literal meaning, then it also means to do what Jesus says. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. Between the first and second comings, things will be bad. What we believe to be fundamental truth it passes by as of little importance. What does it mean to not live in fear? Jesus had previously described the multitudes as sheep who needed shepherds (9:36), so it would be expected that Jesus would tell the apostles that the . We have grown up in a nation that was prosperous; not only economically, but spiritually prosperous as well. And he began to a little more, a little more out about what he thought about Scripture. 9. The world, now as ever, is full of wolves. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. So it is that we must beware of men. You've come to fight as free men and free men you are. They will have to trust Him as they go. 1. And so, as soon as we get down below the surface of things and grapple with the real, deep-lying, and formative principles of a life, we come to antagonism, just as they used to come to it long ago, though the form of it has become quite different. (Hosea 7:8-10), Biblical Character Qualities And Life Skills, 7. . Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. Look at verse 17. You may have wondered how for certain our governmental leaders can call themselves Christians and also promote such things as abortion and special privileges for homosexuals. 3. They would still be busy going through Israel when the Son of Man would come. ii. 4. However, modern Christianity, particularly in the kumbaya denominations, seems to ignore the wolf warnings in Scripture. Would you let me help? We are to be as shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves in our responses to others even if they persecute us. iv. The key-note of all that has preceded has been love -- the love of Christ's friends to one another, and of all to Him, as an answer to His love to all. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. g. There is no reason to fear, God cares for you more than the sparrows! Theology was the only subject he genuinely enjoyed discussing. Sometimes, these "wolves" are ignorant themselves, untutored in the faith, forming strange . Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when there is the log in your own eye? Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. . Remember that Jesus has sent you out as a sheep among wolves. For it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.. Yea! ii. Nowhere, until you have got it draggling in the mud at the foot. No! The greater portion of our lives moves on this surface, whore all men are alike. P.H 1 2 Next Sheep Among Wolves. a. Simply put, it is a very graphic description of the rejection that they would receive at the hands of the world while at the same time describing the nature of the relationship they were to have with Christ. 1. Our victory is to be won only through absolute faithfulness to Christ's ideal. b. Newsweek Magazine, Feb. 13th 2012, had as its cover The War on Christians The title of the article was The rise of Christophobia: From the one end of the Muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith., 1. In the vein of 25 Ta Life, Madball, Early Cro-Mags. Some of you may remember that name. Herod Agrippa I and many of the other government leaders mentioned in the New Testament were certainly such wolves. 1 Cor. Jesus said to them again, Peace be with you. The only way to overcome the world's hostility is by turning the world into a church, and that can only be done when Christ's servants oppose pity to wrath, love to hate, and in the strength of His life who has won us all by the same process, seek to win the world for Him by the manifestation of His victorious love in our patient love. 2. That does not appear to include those bad folks having their meeting. Will you fight? But if the Lord instead chooses to judge our nation, which we see happening, then I think we can expect: b. 1.1 Two Wolves 1.2 Fifty Pound Chain 1.3 No Code 1.4 Local One Thirty Eight 1.5 Hard Knocks 1.6 Reality Check 1.7 The Few the True 1.8 Rage in the Cage 1.9 Hard to Kill 1.10 Neglected. These words strike a discord in the midst of the sweet music to which we have been listening. He did not seek persecution out, he did not fearfully shrink from it, but neither did he stay after such persecution had arisen. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR FREEDOM! Other religions such as Hinduism (Nepal) and Islam (Mid-east; Africa, Asia) continue to persecute. In Acts 12, we are told that Herod Agrippa I laid hands on some who belonged to the church, in order to mistreat them. And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. Is it not I, the LORD?. And then our Lord touches another, and yet closely-connected, cause when He speaks of His selecting the Apostles, and drawing them out of the world, as a reason for the world's hostility. Physical death is nothing compared to spiritual death. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Our lives depend upon the shepherd. The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. The growth of cancer cells. They are mentioned specifically or alluded to in Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Ephesians. i. Templetons body language softened. 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. . 3. In the Bible, wolves are acknowledged as dangerous to flocks of sheep and, metaphorically, to the spiritual well-being of early Christians. It is one thing to suffer at the hands of an unjust government or a false religion, it is quite another to have the persecution arise from within your own family, yet there is that danger of wolves even from among those who are related by blood. M Yet in the midst of that, we do not need to worry about what to say when that sort of persecution breaks out. "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. The scourging itself was done with a stick that had leather thongs attached to the end. In my Father's house are many rooms. Jesus gave this same warning again in Mark 13 a year later as he taught them about the tribulation to come. What does the CPC think about that? For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. We must humbly examine our privilege and work to end individual and systemic oppressions. 4:11, Then the LORD said to [Moses], Who has made mans mouth? The section of Scripture we have been examining contains Jesus instructions to the apostles when He first sent them out to proclaim the message that the kingdom of heaven was at hand (Matthew 10:7). Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. Jesus suffered persecution, torture, and death to free you from your sins. Jesus said that in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world (John 16:33). Bring them out to us, that we may know them. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so. Discussion in 'General Theology' started by aiki, Jan 29, 2021. . 1. Foxes book of Martyrs says that the only apostle who escaped a violent death from the State was the Apostle John. Instead, things are stirred up as he preached the whole gospel. iii. because everything is happening just like the bible said it would, this is not a mere coincidence; but we have to fine tune our discernment and wisdom, and pray for the . viii. And you know the way to where I am going. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going. We will run. a. Luther was n stranger to controversy. Prov. And now, lastly, note how to meet this antagonism. Wolves Among the Sheep. But this persecution was promised by God. 2. It all came to a culmination when he wrote a book. c. These reformers were like sheep in the midst of a pack of wolves. . Americans are enamored with the good life. 'The world' will be in antagonism to the Church until the world ceases to be a world, because it obeys the King; and then, and not till then, will it cease to be hostile to His subjects. 7. Christians will never be the cool kids on the block. Yes, there is joy unspeakable in Christ, but the appeal Jesus makes to those that will be in His church is to hardship, suffering, and even death. Why should the world hate, or persecute, or do anything but despise a Christianity like that, any more than a man need to care for a tame tiger that has had its claws pared? He washe was basically targeted for massive success. 7. Both the North and the South acknowledged this. iv. The hatred and hostility will come from all of society and it will go from bad to worse. Be different from the world. The flight of the sparrow. I think its helpful to say that chapter 10. Doubts about the Christian faith were solidifying as he planned to enter Princeton Theological Seminary. This was a promise of difficulty and tribulation and persecution. v. We are to love our enemies and bless those who persecute us. Teach publicly what you learn privately. F He first professed faith in 1936 and became an evangelist that same year. ii. Y The second acknowledges there are enemies, wolves that need taming by Biblical truths. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. We have all the same affections and needs, pursue the same avocations, do the same sort of things, and a large portion of every one's life is under the dominion of habit and custom, and determined by external circumstances. 16:33, The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD., 4. iii. xii. In a few moments we will be observing the Lords Table. I JUNE 2015. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it." Luke 9:23-24 In this passage, we are instructed to deny ourselves. him!. The current popular appeal to get people in their church is a message of ease, comfort, riches, advancement, etc. Maranatha! And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And if I may put it this way, he said as his voice began to crack, I . They can only intimidate you if you let them! It was a common name for Satan or Prince Baal. 21:1, The kings heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will., 5. Jesus said he would be with us always, even to the end of the age (Matthew 28:20). But they wouldnt bend their knee; and they are persecuted for it. Let not your hearts be troubled. This is a clear eschatological statement. A second danger is that if you think that prosperity is the goal of life, then greed takes over along with its many ramifications. BUT, they should NOT move out of fear, or purchase a sword out of fear. They have forgotten their fold. Which community is yours? Humility goes a long way in doing that. Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages. ii. 3. 3. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. Jesus says, a persons enemies will be those of his own household. Prov. And our Lord here tells us that our experience, if we are faithful to Him, will be like His experience, in that some will hearken to our word though others will persecute, and to some our testimony will come as a message from God that draws them to the Lord Himself. He was in his 80s and suffering from Alzheimers, but still a clear conversation parter. As intellectually inferior. The common practice was that one judge would call out the sentence, another would announce the punishment, another would do the scourging, and others would call out the blows. This type of telescoping prophecy is common in Scripture. But we have become complacent. The idea of being innocent as doves speaks of being pure and true to Gods word and His will. Sheep Among Wolves - GCM With over 750 churches planted in countries throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, Sheep Among Wolves is bringing disciple-making methods to the West to build a decentralized network of discipleship communities that will prepare America for the end times harvest. Its hostile to God. There are the domestic ties, there are the associations of commerce and neighbourhood, there are surface identities of opinion about many important things. Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. After all, men do know that it is better to be good, that it is better and wiser to be like Christ, that it is nobler to live for Him than for self, and that consciousness cannot but modify to some extent the manifestations of the hostility, but it is there all the same, and whosoever will be a Christian after Christ's pattern will find out that it is there. See, I have told you beforehand. 2. That love, which is one, whether it rise to Him or is diffused on the level of earth, is the result of that unity of life between the Vine and the branches, of which our Lord has been speaking such great and wonderful things. We say things that are antagonistic and condemning and wonder why people respond defensively or aggressively. 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